Chopping alfalfa haylage this past summer in 2023 on our upstate New York dairy farm and showing chopping haylage 27 years earlier in 1996 #farming #dairyfarm #barn #cows #johndeere #forageharvester
Mike, watching this is just awesome. Seeing a sound gard cab with a pull behind chopper and self unloading wagon is way cooler to watch than trucks and self propelled choppers any day! Keep up the GREAT work and keep this equipment setup going as long as you can!!!
@@mikep7810 there will probably be a day in the near future when you won’t have a choice. One of the salesmen from Whites was under the impression that Case IH was going to end production soon and New Holland at the least stopped making the FP230. I think Dion will be the only company making a pull behind before too long.
Go Grandma, what a legacy. So cool that you are going through these and sharing them with us. What a difference in video quality these days. Imagine the meaningful legacy you are creating with each of your videos today. Thank you Mike!
Mike love these old videoes brings back memoriers for me see the older tractors i miss dairy farming but with my health now and the prices of everything i dont see how you all hang on hats off to you and your dad its a lot of hard work for very little money
That is so cool these old vidoes. Things change a little bit from them days. I could relate to them chopping days when I was a young boy working on the farms doing the raking hauling silage to up rights or a bunker.
Thanks Josh. I have a cool clip I found of my uncle and grandfather in the same field both moldboard plowing with 4wd Ford tractors. I'm going to show Jason that one, I bet he'd like it
Man 1996… I was in 7th grade in Marcellus Schools. Filling silo with haylage can be a pain… the hay has to be just right or you’ll get trouble… ask me how I know… lol it’s not like corn silage and you can unload full send and it’ll go as fast as you can take it. Very nice… I love throwback videos. It’s like a time capsule… keep them coming bud..
Rick! Think of all the farms still milking out our way in 1996, now there are only 3 farms between Skaneateles and Cazenovia on Rt. 20 who still ship milk.
Hello mike great vidéo thanks I love the revivals of our childhood, it goes back to my childhood in silage at my boss's father's house with the 6030 on the John Deere forage harvester, 3 row corn cutter and a 2.4 meter for grass, it was the one of the biggest in my village and the 2640 jd on the gehl silage wagon and the 5020 on the other wagon and the 4320 on the blower and we had a total of 4 wagons we were equipped as in the us but in Alsace in France and we took us for sick people in terms of construction site performance, I thank you again for reminding me of my childhood
yes we had a 6030 a 5020 an 830 a 620 a 7520 articulated and the biggest an 8440 one of the last John Deere V8 series and the 2640 real solid material as we do more we still have the 2640 and the rest some farm equipment went to our breeder friend and the 5020 we made a reepower 12v 71t detroit diesel because the original 6 cylinder is ruined, impossible to repair it and with the exploitation of 1300 or 1500 hectares it was necessary to renew the equipment because we do eta and the 1300 or 1500 hectares are exploitation plus customers
Really great video! Even though the newer equipment has some small technology added to them the process is still the same! In the 70's you had to move the blower chute and flap with a hand crank and rope! Thanks Mike 👍😎
@@mikep7810 I think just having a Soundguard in general would be better than what I have now, lol. Although, I was in Lejune back in 96, still a helluva time to be alive.
This was cool. The chopper that you were using in 1996 looks like the chopper we used in 1996 which is the same as we still use in 2023. I don't know what it is about your videos Mike but they make me feel younger. Pretty strange phenomenon. Love that 3020. Most times it's on our blower though.... We still pull our Meyer's wagons with the JD A. Good chance I will be doing that until I retire. This really was a great visit down memory lane.
Who's that kid in the chopper tractor? 😂 I ran NH 892 behind a JD 7800 , with Gehl and JD boxes then. I was about as good looking as I was ever going to be then.. 🤣 Great video! 👍👍
Thanks Morgan. My mom was chopping at the beginning of the video in 1996. Once my brother was unloading my dad took over chopping. I was in the barn with my other brother milking
Haha I was just at an auction last spring and they had 4 or 5 of those John Deere forage wagons. It was pretty cool to see them again and go over them a little bit
Were the Sealstores new or used when you put them up? You mentioned the corn silage unit was recently built at the time of '96 video but I thought they were out of business by then already. Not much info available on the Sealstores, unlike the Harvestores.
All the sealstors my dad put up were used and bought from another farm. He put the high moisture corn unit up in 1993 or 1994. He had just put up this haylage unit in 1996 and the one for corn silage was put up in 2000
The thing it came down to was the unloaders. My dad didn't like the looks of the goliath unloaders in the harvestore. The sealstor has the Laidig unloaders which is an auger going around in the silo so there is no long arming or short arming them
No I was in the barn milking in 1996. In the 2023 video that was my son hooking the wagon up to the chopper. I thinking the only one hooking up the wagon in 1996 was my dad
We can definitely put a lot more material through the chopper now. I see that 790 chopper and thinking about how it looks like a toy compared to the fp240. I don't think I would ever tried to put a merged row through the 790 like we do with the fp240
8:55 Interestong leak in front of the right-front wheel of that chopper box. And judging by the little pile in front of the newer H&S box 9:36 , it was a common problem. 😃 Your grandma did a great job of capturing the action with good, level framing and very little shake for an old videocamera with no stabilization control. Also interesting how much your son looks like you when you were young.
Awesome wonderful to have those memories thank you
Thank you Peter
Brings back a lot of memories when i was a kid growing up on a small dairy farm...
Great memories indeed
I love old videos that people took back during the day. Glimpse into the past. Wish we had some
Its been great to go back through these old tapes
Awesome 👌 thanks
Thank you
Mike, watching this is just awesome. Seeing a sound gard cab with a pull behind chopper and self unloading wagon is way cooler to watch than trucks and self propelled choppers any day! Keep up the GREAT work and keep this equipment setup going as long as you can!!!
Thank you John. I'm not going to lie, I wouldn't mind trying a self propelled chopper for a day
@@mikep7810 there will probably be a day in the near future when you won’t have a choice. One of the salesmen from Whites was under the impression that Case IH was going to end production soon and New Holland at the least stopped making the FP230. I think Dion will be the only company making a pull behind before too long.
Love the old videos. Have a good one Mike. Hopefully it's a drier one for us in NY then last year
Thanks Bryan
Go Grandma, what a legacy. So cool that you are going through these and sharing them with us. What a difference in video quality these days. Imagine the meaningful legacy you are creating with each of your videos today. Thank you Mike!
Its great to share all her work. I wish she was alive to see her hard work on TH-cam
Not much is changed! Finally got your brother on camera!
Nope, just bigger equipment.
Mike love these old videoes brings back memoriers for me see the older tractors i miss dairy farming but with my health now and the prices of everything i dont see how you all hang on hats off to you and your dad its a lot of hard work for very little money
Thank you James. We do the best we can
Love the older footage. You had cool equipment then and now! I unloaded quite a few wagons in the 1980s, those were great days.
Thanks Tom. Its been great to go back through the old footage and watch
That is so cool these old vidoes. Things change a little bit from them days. I could relate to them chopping days when I was a young boy working on the farms doing the raking hauling silage to up rights or a bunker.
Definitely brings back good memories
Love the old videos! Cool to see one from your farm!
Thanks Josh. I have a cool clip I found of my uncle and grandfather in the same field both moldboard plowing with 4wd Ford tractors. I'm going to show Jason that one, I bet he'd like it
Man 1996… I was in 7th grade in Marcellus Schools. Filling silo with haylage can be a pain… the hay has to be just right or you’ll get trouble… ask me how I know… lol it’s not like corn silage and you can unload full send and it’ll go as fast as you can take it. Very nice… I love throwback videos. It’s like a time capsule… keep them coming bud..
If I'm thinking correctly the summer of 1996 I would have just finished 7th grade
Rick! Think of all the farms still milking out our way in 1996, now there are only 3 farms between Skaneateles and Cazenovia on Rt. 20 who still ship milk.
Hello mike great vidéo thanks
I love the revivals of our childhood, it goes back to my childhood in silage at my boss's father's house with the 6030 on the John Deere forage harvester, 3 row corn cutter and a 2.4 meter for grass, it was the one of the biggest in my village and the 2640 jd on the gehl silage wagon and the 5020 on the other wagon and the 4320 on the blower and we had a total of 4 wagons we were equipped as in the us but in Alsace in France and we took us for sick people in terms of construction site performance, I thank you again for reminding me of my childhood
Sounds like a great fleet of tractors
yes we had a 6030 a 5020 an 830 a 620 a 7520 articulated and the biggest an 8440 one of the last John Deere V8 series and the 2640 real solid material as we do more we still have the 2640 and the rest some farm equipment went to our breeder friend and the 5020 we made a reepower 12v 71t detroit diesel because the original 6 cylinder is ruined, impossible to repair it
and with the exploitation of 1300 or 1500 hectares it was necessary to renew the equipment because we do eta and the 1300 or 1500 hectares are exploitation plus customers
Yea, the equipment has gotten bigger, the additives on the blower, hearing protection. Seems like 1996 was yesterday.
It is crazy to think about it. It does seem like it was yesterday but it was 27 years ago
Great video
Thanks John
Really great video! Even though the newer equipment has some small technology added to them the process is still the same! In the 70's you had to move the blower chute and flap with a hand crank and rope! Thanks Mike 👍😎
Thanks Dennis. I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Your dad wearing the Agway hat.👍👍
I didn't even notice that
i love the old ones jest like in my day thank you
Thank you Nash. I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Hell, I’d be happy with the 1996 setup, lol
A 4 year old 4055 with 1500 hours would be pretty sweet!
@@mikep7810 I think just having a Soundguard in general would be better than what I have now, lol. Although, I was in Lejune back in 96, still a helluva time to be alive.
love the video
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it
This was cool. The chopper that you were using in 1996 looks like the chopper we used in 1996 which is the same as we still use in 2023. I don't know what it is about your videos Mike but they make me feel younger. Pretty strange phenomenon. Love that 3020. Most times it's on our blower though.... We still pull our Meyer's wagons with the JD A. Good chance I will be doing that until I retire. This really was a great visit down memory lane.
Thank you Anthony. That chopper was a Ford/New Holland 790
@@mikep7810 yea, our chopper is a New Holland 717S.
Who's that kid in the chopper tractor? 😂 I ran NH 892 behind a JD 7800 , with Gehl and JD boxes then. I was about as good looking as I was ever going to be then.. 🤣 Great video! 👍👍
Thanks Morgan. My mom was chopping at the beginning of the video in 1996. Once my brother was unloading my dad took over chopping. I was in the barn with my other brother milking
Love the smell of fresh cut hay
Definitely a great smell
Hi Mike, p you have some nice videos on TH-cam
Thank you Amanda
You are welcome mike p
That was neat to see
Thank you
Makes a guy realize how long we’ve been doing this when you see a baby version of yourself doing the same things
Definitely really cool to look back at
the good ole days we were all alot younger then
Yeah I think I just finished 7th grade in this video
Mmm not getting your notifications.. but always go hunting anyway looking for them . Stay safe 🏴
Thank you Ian. I appreciate you looking for them
I've got a Jd chopper box mint condition got it for my birthday...8th birthday 1/16th😂😂😂
Haha I was just at an auction last spring and they had 4 or 5 of those John Deere forage wagons. It was pretty cool to see them again and go over them a little bit
Were the Sealstores new or used when you put them up? You mentioned the corn silage unit was recently built at the time of '96 video but I thought they were out of business by then already. Not much info available on the Sealstores, unlike the Harvestores.
All the sealstors my dad put up were used and bought from another farm. He put the high moisture corn unit up in 1993 or 1994. He had just put up this haylage unit in 1996 and the one for corn silage was put up in 2000
Great to look back,what was the tractor in the blower?👍
Thank you. It was a John Deere 2640
Love the throwback where about sun NY are you located
Thank you Mike. I'm a little south of Cortland
@@mikep7810 I have family in Vernon center they have a grain farm called Richardsons Farms
Imagine if your grandmom had had a drone!
Now that would have been cool!
Mike why did you put up seal store and not a harvest store? Was it totally price difference? It’s awful nice taking videos and seeing the past today.
The thing it came down to was the unloaders. My dad didn't like the looks of the goliath unloaders in the harvestore. The sealstor has the Laidig unloaders which is an auger going around in the silo so there is no long arming or short arming them
I guess sampler is better😊 @@mikep7810
Are you the kid hooking the wagon up to the chopper in the 96 video?
No I was in the barn milking in 1996. In the 2023 video that was my son hooking the wagon up to the chopper. I thinking the only one hooking up the wagon in 1996 was my dad
How do U compare now vs then? one tractor to another? What was the one on the blower?
We can definitely put a lot more material through the chopper now. I see that 790 chopper and thinking about how it looks like a toy compared to the fp240. I don't think I would ever tried to put a merged row through the 790 like we do with the fp240
What was on the blower?
2640
Great video. Was that Babette ?
Yes it was.
The dairy industry was a lot better in 96. That's before all the mega dairy's took over. We have a huge one by us. They killed the small guys
Always good to look back at the good old days
8:55 Interestong leak in front of the right-front wheel of that chopper box. And judging by the little pile in front of the newer H&S box 9:36 , it was a common problem. 😃 Your grandma did a great job of capturing the action with good, level framing and very little shake for an old videocamera with no stabilization control. Also interesting how much your son looks like you when you were young.
Thank you. I wish my grandma was still alive today to see her videos being on TH-cam
great video
Thank you Anthony